From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/13222 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ed Maste Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: qsort_r or qsort_s in musl Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:27:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180903205705.GA7639@localhost> <20180903225316.GY1878@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536600336 10661 195.159.176.226 (10 Sep 2018 17:25:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:25:36 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-13238-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Sep 10 19:25:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fzPwE-0002Zi-Bx for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:25:26 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 15696 invoked by uid 550); 10 Sep 2018 17:27:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 15654 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2018 17:27:33 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to; bh=0yI31kJWSGukQjW7ARUa9ApRQRc9BC7JftemUnNruuA=; b=qUTyZKXxmo9yFqXAdSC/2CbJG3cOtfoBhBkxe5079OmOLYrOu5pj4o0CsWvSaFzcMw eLbMsFE6+HBuIckNXEAw0lfN749SgetQBYJOpUPq+W7+u1r4pviTjj0hSxhTpHDk7lDC iUdB6pHSjoWXnsV23Bf1GpRsnwMrwfE0GXnghReny5Fc2o7qVNf7MQxKwHchhlx83OMO YGTKC6apQt3SKsDM+pLuw4Im/jm/yTweZQ7nvLDIsGCOFvV1FvXENU4yFJwplXwixpg/ Rx0P+gZd2+G2w8KMDduHPLiiIGj5hdCK7QokSmZ787/MJsC3HmqyGoHGQkJzr+DpQzFg r0Hg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=0yI31kJWSGukQjW7ARUa9ApRQRc9BC7JftemUnNruuA=; b=YpNBSxNI+u3zEy1p0IDo+UUTcGRJYk+967XGR+WmF2DURBqIb8wtrAvTm63C1xj9Pl 5VoK4bq7EHNGNYR9go8yUCkxR9I6w9hbRkuC8Qk+A2/db4mdqJahDw5hh98jcfTPnmzb TO9esQ0Br02aE+DZXdPAi62yTKgDSIZKThjYK+1n7dEe3lSwM8UpgBdYrRU6d4zcTnoO OTp873LGaWBintF7U9sKiKDa6yRvMtkm7Ppkw2WvpLjugfUl5H4rhRjHo+DhW8AGonMK es+GIdjfBoMlGfRgXWNrgUVXFmtr4ic4MARqeYqyDy5+DTxZPdRtKF67SIcTt8+J5gmq Q+aw== X-Gm-Message-State: APzg51AqX4tJUHORCX/24WujZnXkZTFSTKTiTaWL5GyiNP25qsreZxIu cOKo/aju0yAZmWuIJpQvKKZtPLc/mtZzX8zJ5xd8WNi7 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ANB0VdbjRb4TOR4Zc2+IuLqvVQ+X8/HbyA1yYsrWW3u99RHWNZMpUAO0ZFULHhUGlX+BVxzsMOGZrENqPcqIfNQe4Ic= X-Received: by 2002:a6b:ac45:: with SMTP id v66-v6mr19074144ioe.66.1536600441345; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Sender: carpeddiem@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20180903225316.GY1878@brightrain.aerifal.cx> X-Google-Sender-Auth: W_V_4s6MwHBvwaG1j8t0PJnj44U Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:13222 Archived-At: > qsort_r was at first rejected because of the conflicting definitions > -- existence of same-named interfaces with different semantics or > signatures is one of the big criteria for exclusion of nonstandard > extensions in musl. However, from the FreeBSD side at least there > seems to be interest in dropping their version and agreeing upon a > standard aligned with glibc's version, for the sake of POSIX: If you want to see the current state of this in FreeBSD, we have a code review in progress in Phabricator at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17083. If POSIX standardizes on the glibc version I'm sure we'll follow.